On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Kathy Edwards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Mattresses: Corncobs? Straw? Rice hulls? Feather beds? Futons? Seems a matter of finding the point at which mattress production becomes an industry. Interesting question, I have no light to shed.

 

But on a sidenote: In the J. Walther Thompson Company archives in the collections at Duke’s John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History is a wonderful and occasionally scandalous record of a sales campaign for the Simmons Beautyrest mattress account. See the Lucile Turnbach Platt Papers, 1926-1930. Simmons has been huge in the industry for such a long time—perhaps start with that company’s origins? Might open up the landscape.

 

Kathy Edwards

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From: ARLIS/NA List [mailto:[log in to unmask]ORG] On Behalf Of Burns, Jasmine
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2016 3:19 PM
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Subject: [ARLIS-L] Research Question in Textiles

 

Hello all,

 

I hope someone can help me with this difficult request! I have a research consultation tomorrow morning with an MFA student in Textiles who is writing about the history of mattresses. I can point her towards all the usual art-related databases, but I was wondering if there was anything out there that is more specialized that might address production, manufacture, and/or history in general from a textile perspective.

 

Any advice/resources would be warmly welcomed.

 

Many thanks,

Jasmine

 

Jasmine Burns, MA, MLIS

Image Technologies and Visual Literacy Librarian

Interim Head, Fine Arts Library

Indiana University Bloomington

1133 E. 7^th Street

Bloomington, IN 47401

812-855-9792

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